Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags

[Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>]

(+CC: Arnd)

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:44 AM Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com> wrote:
>
> Allow additional arguments be passed to userprogs compilation.
> Reproducible clang builds need to provide a sysroot and gcc path to
> ensure same toolchain is used across hosts. KCFLAGS is not currently
> used for any user programs compilation, so add new USERCFLAGS and
> USERLDFLAGS which serves similar purpose as HOSTCFLAGS/HOSTLDFLAGS.
>
> Specifically, I'm trying to force CC_CAN_LINK to consistently fail in
> an environment where a user sysroot is not specifically available.
> Currently, Clang might automatically detect GCC installation on hosts
> which have it installed to a default location in /. With addition of
> these environment variables, our build environment can do like
> "--sysroot=/dev/null" to force sysroot detection to fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
> ---


> --- a/usr/include/Makefile
> +++ b/usr/include/Makefile
> @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ UAPI_CFLAGS := -std=c90 -Wall -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
>  # It is here just because CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is tested with -m32 or -m64.
>  UAPI_CFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
>
> +# USERCFLAGS might contain sysroot location for CC
> +UAPI_CFLAGS += $(USERCFLAGS)
>

I am OK with this patch, but I was not sure with this line.

Initially, I thought exported UAPI headers should be self-contained.
In other words, we should be able to compile-test them without
relying on compiler or libc headers.

Is this achievable or not?

I think Arnd is an expert in this area.
I hope some input from him.





 +
>  override c_flags = $(UAPI_CFLAGS) -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) -I$(objtree)/usr/include
>
>  # The following are excluded for now because they fail to build.
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada